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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roscuro find on the floor?
(a) A single shoe.
(b) A butter knife.
(c) The Queen's broach.
(d) The Queen's soup spoon.

2. What do stories do for Gregory?
(a) Make light.
(b) Teach him to read.
(c) Distract him.
(d) Help him see.

3. What is the most basic and elemental rule that all mice adhere to?
(a) Never eat cheese in the morning.
(b) Never reveal yourself to humans.
(c) Never chase cats.
(d) Never walk a straight line.

4. What does Roscuro do that gets him into trouble with Gregory?
(a) He chews on his rope.
(b) He bites Gregory's shoes.
(c) He steals food.
(d) He takes all the stuffing.

5. Why does Despereaux tell the jailer he cannot die?
(a) Because he is too young.
(b) Because he is in love.
(c) Becaue he wants to learn how to write.
(d) Because he wants to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Gregory in the dungeon?

2. What is the name of the kingdom?

3. What does Gregory do?

4. What other crime did he commit that he wasn't caught for?

5. On what day does Roscuro leave the dungeon to go into the light of the castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the threadmaster ask Despereaux as he is doing his job?

2. Why does Despereaux refuse to renounce his actions in front of the Mouse Council?

3. What is the outcome of Chiaroscuro's trip into the light?

4. What does Roscuro discover when he works up the courage to go upstairs into the light?

5. Why does the jailer tell Despereaux that he definitely does not want to be let go in this place?

6. What is the purpose of the Mouse Council?

7. What is the job of the threadmaster?

8. What happens when the Princess begins to cry?

9. What is the first thing that Despereaux is aware of after he is pushed down the dungeon steps by Furlough and the second guard?

10. In what ways do Despereaux's siblings attempt to educate him on how to be a mouse?

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